Educational device



Nov. 3I 1925 R. C. BEERY ET AL EDUCATIONAL DEVICE 2 sheets-sheer 1 Filed March 14, 1924 frane/bvs RAY C. BEERY,

Nov. 3,1925.'

1,559,665A R. c. BEERY. Er AL EDUCATIONAL DEVICE v Filed uarcn 14, 192@l g sheets-sheet 2 vRAY C'. BEERY,

ROBERT CRA/q7 Gamm/1,

Patented Noy. 3, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,559,665 PATENT OFFICE.

RAY C. BEERY, OF PLEASANT ,HILL AND ROBERT CRAIG, F DAYTON, OBII; SAID CEAIG ASSIGNOB T0 SAID BEEB'Y.

EpUcAfrIoNAL Drunen Application ledrlarch 14, 1924. Serial No. 699,174.

y To all whom it mag/concern.'

which may be detached.

Be it known that we, RAY C. BERY and ROBERT CRAIG, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Pleasant' Hill, Miami County, Ohio, and Dayton, ,Montgomery County, Ohio, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Educational Device, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

Our invention relates to device for use by children.

It is the object of our invention to provide in a single compact unit means for instructing children in the copying of various designs. It is our object to permit of this copying, either on a medium which may be permanently retained, or upon a medium an educational lt is an additional object of our invention to provide means of moving a new design to be copied'in suoli a manner that a child may move the mechanism for presenting the new design.

lt is a Jfurther object of our invention to provide means of installing readily and quickly new strips bearing a new series of designs or drawings.

lt is an additional object of our invention to provide within the-same self-contained cabinet a drawer for holding the drawing materials and other articles.

It is our object toprovidewithin the same cabinet a space for the pla-ying of games.

It is an additional object of our invention 'to provide either tracing by the contact over asupporting surface 14, downwardly method or by illumination. It is our object to provide means of projecting light of artificial character through the movable strip, which has upon it the designs, thus enabling tracing to be done through the heavier ma terials. l! i `It, is well knownl that copying of pictures;

designs and other items of 'pictorial information 1s a preferred method of instructing persons of a variety of ages. It is the obJoct of our invention to facilitate such' instruc Vhinged to the box at 20, which serves to tion. l

- It is a further object to provide a readily detachable holder for the tracing glass or tracing paper, upon which the designs are traced.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective of the cabinet with the top open and the drawer out.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2--2 of Figure 1,\showing the form of cabinet in which the contact method is used.

Figure 3 is a similar view showing one form of the artificial'illumination.

F1 ure 4 is a lview similar to Figure 3,

show1ng`a form of indirect artificial illumination. i Y

Figure 5 is a section showing a modified f orm, in which there is a portable projection cabinet and a tracing screen carried upon a collapsible table.

Figure 6 is a side elevation of one of the rolls carrying the illustrated strip, showing the method of mounting the roll.

.Figure 7 is ka plan view of a portion of:

guide rollers 11. The purpose of such guide rollers is to prevent warping or twisting of the paper sheet and to insure its even winding on the rolls 7. These rolls 7 are ac,`

tuated by the key 12, which is detachable so thilt one key can be used in the end of either ro v The strip 8 passes through the opening 13,

through t e opening 15 over its guide rol and on to the other roller. -Just above this surface 14 is a ground glass 16, or a lass otherwise treated so that it may be written upon and the writing erased at the will of the user. In the place of this glass, tracing paper or cardsmay be inserted. The

glass iscarried by a frame 17,.which is lo.- cated in position by the dowel pins 18. The box is provided with a hinged cover 19,

'to' support its outer end when desired. It

will be obvious that this top may be hingedl either on the back or the sides of the box.

, It will be equally obvious that the rolls mayy be installed as indicated'fore and yaft of the box or transversely of the box. If the latter is the case, the drawer may be put on the on the strip and makes it an easy matter tok lamp 24. This housing serves as a reflector l for reiecting thelight through a glass Writing surface 25.

In the form shown inFigure 4 for indi-- rect illumination the lamp 24 is mounted on the bottom 1. A reiiector 26 is mounted above it on spaced legs 27, so-that the light is refiected down on the inside of the bottom 1 ,and the side walls 2. These surfaces are coated with an aluminum paint so that the light is reflectedupwardly through the glass 25, the paper strip 8 and through the writing glass 16.

The method of holding the rolls 7 may be -any form of detachable spring holder or any other form of mechanical holder, as this does not form a part of our invention.

Turning to the form shown in Figure 5, yit will be noted thata table 28 'is provided,

having the folding legs 29. This table .carries a glass 16, upon which the image or desi n on the strip 8 is projected. i'

'Iis projection is perfected in the iqllowl ing manner. Within a lamp box 30i is a lamp 24,'having a reflector 31- which concen- `trates the reflected rays at the center of the lamp. These rays are converged by the condenser 31, pass through the strip 8 and projected bythe system of the projecting lenses '32 and carried by the projection box top 33. The projection boxitself carries in its side walls theJ strip 8.

rolls 7,.l on which is wound thev We desireto'comprehend wlthin our invention such modifications as maybe necessary to adaptk it to Varying conditions.

Having thus fully described .our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure' .by Letters Patent, is

An'educational device comprising a permanent-transparent writingv surface and a strip containing a series 4of illustrations adapted to be successivel presentedimmediately beneathsaid sur ace and in Contact therewith, whereby the several illustrations may be traced on said writing surface as desired'. j

In testimony whereof, wepax our signatures.

RAY C. BEERY ROBERT CRAIG. 

